Check-operated mechanism.



No. 870,338. PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

B. A. BEAUMONT, JR. & e. w. GARMON.

CHECK OPERATED MECHANISM. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 9, 1908. RENEWED SEPT.12, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, JR, AND GEORGE W. GARMON, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

CHE CK-OPE RATED ME CHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed February 9, 1906. Serial No. 300,221. RenewedSeptember 12, 1907. Serial No. 392,570-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, Jr., and GEORGE W. GARMON,citizens of the United States. and residents of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania. have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Check-Operated Mechanism, of which the followingis a specification.

()ur invention relates to improvements in check-operated mechanisms, andthe objects of our invention are, first to furnish a simple means forpreventing the unauthorized withdrawal of the coins or checks from thecoin receptacle; second, to furnish means for causing the coin carriersto positively register with the coin slot in the inclosing case; third,to furnish a simple and positive means for completely cleaning the coincar- The invention herein described is an improvement upon the inventionset forth in our application for patent on check-operated apparatus,Serial Number 265,140, filed in the United States Patent Office, June14, 1905.

in the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and inwhich similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout theseveral views Figure 1, is a vertical longitudinal section through aninclosing case showing in side and sectional elevation our improvementsin check-operated mechanism; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the lever foroperating the coin carriers, and the means ior preventing the coincarriers, upon each complete movement of the operating lever, frompassing out of register with the coin slot; Fig. 3, a side elevation ofthe case for inclosing the check operated mechanism showing, partlybroken away, a case for carrying the contact making and breaking leverwhich carries a telephone receiver, and the means operated by themovements of said lever for locking or unlocking the coin carrier shaftagainst a forward movement. Fig. 4, a front elevation of part of shaftfor carrying coin carriers, a set of coin carriers, and the device forcleaning the coin carriers.

a is the inclosing case for the mechanism. This case is divided by apartition d into an upper chamber 1) which carries the mechanism and alower chamber 0 which forms the coin receptacle. In order that the coinsmay not be withdrawn from the receptacle 6 by turning the case upsidedown the partition (I is furnished with a hinged trap f which when thecase is in its normal position drops open by gravity permitting thepassage of a coin from the upper to the lower part of the case, butwhich. if the case be turned upside down, closes and prevents the coinspassing from the lower to the upper part of the case.

g is the shaft upon which the coin carriers h are carried, 'i isaahandle through which, and a suitable arrangement of pawl and ratchet, asdescribed fully in our former application, the shaft 9 and the coincarriers carried thereby may be intermittently revolved in onedirection.

As in our former invention at the end of each complete operativemovement of the operating lever i one or other of the coin carriers h isbrought into register with the slot j in the case a through which thecoin or check is passed to the machine.

Our invention is adapted particularly, though not solely, for telephoneservice and would frequently be in places where children orirresponsible persons would amuse themselves by operating the lever "i.In order that the lever i may be tampered with as little as possible weplace upon the shaft g a ratchet '1', best shown in Fig. 3, and furnisha pawl s for engaging it. in the drawing the pawl s is Connected withthe lever t which carries the telephone receiver 74. When the lever t isdepressed by the weight of the receiver the pawl s is in engagement withthe ratchet wheel 7 preventing any movement of the shaft g. As soon,however, as the receiver is lifted the spring 1) raises the arm 15 whichmoves the pawl s away from the ratchet wheel 1'. When this is done theoperating lever i can be moved to actuate the shaft 9 and its connectedparts.

It is extremely important in machines of this class that the shaft g belimited in its movements so that each complete operation of theleveriwill bring a coin carrier exactly opposite the coin slot j in thecase. To this end we furnish a disk 0 carried on shaft g, and a pawl 10,Figs. 1 and 2, which is adapted to engage with the depressions n on thisdisk 0 at the moment that the coin carriers h are directly in registerwith the coin slot j.

Upon the return movement of the operating 'lever, this lever, or a partcarried by or moving with it, engages a trigger 1 attached to oroperating pawl w. This trigger being moved outwards upon the reversemovement of the lever moves the pawl 10 out of engagement withdepression IL. Upon the operative movement of the lever i the trigger Zis operated to hold pawl 10 out of engagement with the disk 0 until thelatter has been moved sufficiently to prevent the pawl from engaging thedepression first opposite it. As the movement of the lever and diskcontinue the trigger is disengaged allowing the pawl to fall in toengage the disk and when the shaft g and the disk have been movedsufficiently to bring a coin carrier opposite slot 7' the pawl 10engages a corresponding depression and prevents a further movement ofthe disk until the lever i is again returned to its first position.

2, Fig. 1, is a cleaner which insures a coin or any other object beingpositively expelled from the coin carriers. The cleaner is placedbetween the disks or plates 0 which carry the coin carriers h and is ofa spiral form as best shown in Fig. 1 so that as the disks are revolvedthe carriers h are, so to speak, swept by the cleaner.

The cleaner is entirely beneath the coin carriers which are opposite thecoin slot j, in the drawing it is also shown as beneath the next coincarrier, that is between this carrier and the shaft g, but it is shownas almost at the outer end of the third carrier. When a coin is passedthrough the coin slot j to the coin carrier, which is open at the topand bottom, it drops by gravity until it engages the cleaner 2, see Fig.l, which acts as a stop to prevent the coin from falling out the innerend of the carrier and the cleaner continues to form a stop to hold thecoin in the carrier until the latter has been so far moved downwards inits rotation that the coin falls by gravity from its outer end.

The exact form or position of the cleaner is immaterial so long as it isarranged to positively eject any object from the coin carriers betweenthe time that the carrier leaves the coin slot j and again returns tothis slot.

In this application we have not shown or described the alarm which isoperated by being engaged by a coin carried in one of the coin carriersh, this feature of our invention having been described and claimed inour application before referred to and not being essential to a correctunderstanding of the devices herein shown and described.

Having thus described our invention We claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

'1. In a check-controlled apparatus, in combination, an inclosing case,a shaft, coin carriers carried by said shaft, means for rotating saidshaft, and a stationary cleaning device for cleaning out said coincarriers during their revolution.

2. In a check-controlled apparatus, in combination, an inclosing case, ashaft, coin carriers carried by said shaft, said carriers being adaptedto engage opposite edges of the coin and being open at the top andbottom, a stationary cleaning device adapted to form a stop for the coinwhen first placed in said carriers and afterwards during the rotation ofsaid shaft and carriers to sweep the carriers from their inner to theirouter ends, and means for rotating said shaft and carriers.

$3. In a check-controlled apparatus, in combination, an inclosing case,a shaft, disks carried by Said shaft, coin carriers, the opposite partsof which are carried one on one disk the other on the other disk, astationary cleaning device placed between said disks, said cleaningdevice having substantially the form of a spiral one .end of whichstarts at a point below the lower ends of the coin carriers and whichgradually passes outward until its outer end terminates at or near theouter ends of said coin carriers, and means for rotating said shaft andcarriers.

EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, JR.

GEORGE W. GARMON.

Witnesses GEORGE W. Snn'rznn, CHARLES A. RUTTER.

